On my first internship I worked at a lab and at one point a researcher asked all the staff to be nice enough to read his draft to spot mistakes. I obliged as well, not understanding he meant typos. I asked him about an equation I did not understand in his paper, because I could not link some terms to the rest of the text. He answered that he did just copy it from another paper, that it only made sense in the original publication and that he was not really understanding it either but just enough to know it had to be there.
On another internship I worked for a researcher who bragged about having published almost 10 papers on one of his algorithmic discoveries without ever revealing totally (which allowed him to start a for-profit company with it)
You know, the whole publication + review + reproduction thing really helped science become a more solid process, but we need something more elaborate now. Probably some kind of reputation system that would not just be the number of citations by friends and colleagues.
On another internship I worked for a researcher who bragged about having published almost 10 papers on one of his algorithmic discoveries without ever revealing totally (which allowed him to start a for-profit company with it)
You know, the whole publication + review + reproduction thing really helped science become a more solid process, but we need something more elaborate now. Probably some kind of reputation system that would not just be the number of citations by friends and colleagues.